Ukrainian budget-funded structures are served by Russian accounting systems – Ministry of Finance of Ukraine

Ministry of Finance of Ukraine in its report of 2016 on facebook admitted the strange fact that 10% of e-cabinets on the official public finances portal of Ukraine E-Data are registered from Russian domains.

“Russian capital, Russian IT solutions are actively presented on the Ukrainian market,” states the report.

“The number of central and local authorities, state-run and municipal enterprises registering their e-cabinets on the E-Data public finances portal from Russian domains is 10% of the total number of registered e-cabinets, totally around thirty seven thousand.”

Report of the E-Data portal for 2016 also shows that accounting systems servicing the major part of Ukrainian budget-funded structures are Russian.

“For example, accounting systems servicing the major part of Ukrainian budget-funded structures are Russian,” reads the report.

E-Data is an official public finances portal of Ukraine. All transactions of the State Treasury Service have been published there since September 15, 2015, information about spending by the national and local budgets has been available since November 2015. State-run and municipal companies with over 50% of share belonged to the state or communities started disclosing information in January 2016. The deals database had 42 million deals as of January 1, 2017.